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Debian Linux Kernel: DSA-4843-1 Moderate Privilege Escalation Risk

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Calendar Grey February 1, 2021
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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks

Summary

CVE-2020-27815

A flaw was reported in the JFS filesystem code allowing a local
attacker with the ability to set extended attributes to cause a
denial of service.

CVE-2020-27825

Adam 'pi3' Zabrocki reported a use-after-free flaw in the ftrace
ring buffer resizing logic due to a race condition, which could
result in denial of service or information leak.

CVE-2020-27830

Shisong Qin reported a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the Speakup
screen reader core driver.

CVE-2020-28374

David Disseldorp discovered that the LIO SCSI target implementation
performed insufficient checking in certain XCOPY requests. An
attacker with access to a LUN and knowledge of Unit Serial Number
assignments can take advantage of this flaw to read and write to any
LIO backstore, regardless of the SCSI transport settings.

CVE-2020-29568 (XSA-349)

Michael Kurth and Pawel Wieczorkiewicz reported that frontends can
trigger OOM in backends by updating a watched path.

CVE-2020-2...

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Package: linux
CVE ID: CVE-2020-27815 CVE-2020-27825 CVE-2020-27830 CVE-2020-28374

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